While its teaser was an evocative, mood-setting piece of work, the official trailer for the highly anticipated return of GODZILLA is a meatier thing featuring more from the ensemble cast, an even grander sense of scale and another brief look at the monster itself.

The little I’ve seen of HANNIBAL is enough to make it very clear that the show, like TRUE DETECTIVE, is a stylish, cinematic delight. As season two approaches (and my catch-up looms), this preview clip of an all-out brawl between Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) and Laurence Fishburne’s Jack Crawford anticipates no different for the upcoming run.

The anthology is back in full force and yet another potential omnibus of terror with an intriguing unifying theme has been announced. PHANTASMAGORIA (not to be confused with Marilyn Manson’s film) seems to be an ode to horror past, specifically billed as “a vibrating tribute to William Castle’s cinema.”

In 2009, the documentary CROPSEY aimed to help us understand the nature of urban legend by singling out a Northeastern horror story and tracing its association with a very disturbing true crime out of Staten Island, NY. In its exploration of everything from satanic panic to the closed Willowbrook State School, co-director Joshua Zeman introduced the idea of “Legend Tripping”: seeking out and engaging your own local scary story. Now Zeman and filmmaker Rachel Mills are doing just that, as a new doc finds the pair traversing the U.S. in search of any dark reality behind what we tell each other in the dark. In anticipation of its Chiller TV debut this March, FANGORIA has your first look at KILLER LEGENDS.

Seemingly very inspired working alongside Chilean filmmakers Nicolas Lopez and Guillermo Amoedo, Eli Roth will reunite with the pair who co-wrote AFTERSHOCK and THE GREEN INFERNO on his new genre effort and next step in his return to directing, KNOCK, KNOCK.

Acclaimed author, programmer and Fango contributor Kier-La Janisse (HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN) has a permanent home online at the great Spectacular Optical. In addition to hosting psychotronic film writing, the site will serve as a base for a line of cinema-centric books, the first of which, focusing on child empowerment in film and television, has been officially announced and boasts a stellar lineup of contributors.

A thrilling, frank take on faux doc and a fictionalized Jonestown, acclaimed young horror filmmaker Ti West’s new film approaches, and the first trailer proves a good look at the horrors, both verbally manipulative and physical, on display.

Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA’s annual New Directors/NewFilms is a showcase of just that, a slate of exciting, emerging talent and the work they’ve created. The 2014 edition, as it’s revealed, is no exception, bringing two stunning, acclaimed Sundance titles to New York, as well as the highly anticipated new experimental giallo from Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani, THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY’S TEARS.

Shock is a cornerstone of horror cinema, but it’s indeed rare for a film to retain lasting bite. CHEAP THRILLS, which you’ve undoubtedly heard about based on its tremendous festival fun, trades in both, ending up a gnashing, hilarious, subversive reflection of the types of indignities we like to watch each other suffer. A microcosm of a society that hosts embarrassment-as-entertainment, self-deception and class conflict, the most surprising thing about E.L. Katz’s feature debut is that it’s just that. FANGORIA spoke with the filmmaker, a longtime collaborator of YOU’RE NEXT’s Adam Wingard, about how he packed a killer cast, clever subtext and more into an accomplished first film.